Error: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)

Question

I was trying to setup owncloud on WSL ubuntu but i am stuck on setting up mysql user and database since it popped up this: Error: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)

but I have already installed mysql-server but it still doesn't work

Answer 1

It happen sometimes when you install mysql-server after php. You must locate your php.ini file and edit it with the good mysqld.sock path.

To locate the socket, be sure that your mysql-server is running, then type sudo locate mysqld.sock in your terminal.

Then, you have to edit your php.ini file and find the mysql.default_socket to assign it the path of the socket. Restart apache and/or php-fpm if you use it and voilà !